Martine Gutierrez – Wunderkind

Childhood

Martine Gutierrez addresses these questions in a large-scale solo exhibition, Wunderkind, emphasising the importance of creativity and expression – qualities that characterised her childhood and made her the internationally celebrated artist she has since become.

Martine Gutierrez

An interdisciplinary artist, Martine Gutierrez works with photography, video, music and performance. Through self-portraiture and cinematic tableaus she reimagines identity, not only as material but also as method. At the 58th Venice Biennale she captured the global art world’s attention with a series of shape-shifting self-portraits in which her body serves as the focus of transformation and critique. ‘Identity is a performance,’ she says. ‘With a bit of practice you can be almost anything.’

Selfhood

Martine sees childhood as the ‘threshold of selfhood’ and art was always her medium, in a deliberate, continuous practice of personal reinvention. The exhibition Wunderkind pieces together the riddle that is Martine, using never before seen artworks that date back to her childhood.